MILTON, JOHN (AUTHOR); HANFORD, JAMES HOLLY (EDITOR) — Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1936. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394601467. A hardcover edition of Paradise Lost. In this work, the Biblical story of Adam and Eve is retold in twelve books of verse by England's John Milton (1608-1674). Edited, with notes, by James Holly Hanford. Unusual pagination starts at p.167. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with spine titling in white. Volume wrapped in simple tan dust jacket. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy, though with penciled notations to front free endpaper and infrequently within the text and whitish smear to front cover, other dampstains to back cover. Unpriced, unclipped jacket with small tears & chips to extremities, scribbling in red crayon to back panel, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector. ; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; [4], 167-472 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .